Index

Alhazen 9, 30 al-Khwˉarizmˉı 18–19 al-Kindi 19 Allbutt, Thomas 15 Ampère, André-Marie 112, 124 Anning, Mary 29 Apollonius of Perga 13 Archimedes 12–13, 78 Aristotle 8–9, 21, 25 astronomers 16, 77–83, 94–95, 98–101, 122, 123, 124 Attenborough, David 122 Averroës 21 Avery, Oswald 37 Avicenna 20, 78

Babbage, Charles 116 Babylonians 22 Bacon, Francis 24–25 Bacon, Roger 30 Baekeland, Leo 64 Bahcall, Neta A 101 Barlow, Peter 112 Barnard, Christiaan 15 Barré-Sinoussi, Françoise 49 Bath, Patricia 31 Berners-Lee, Tim 109 Bhˉaskara I 124 biologists 9, 26–49, 121 Biot, Jean-Baptiste 25 Black, Joseph 54 botanists 9, 28, 33, 72 Boyle, Robert 52–53 Bragg, William Henry 42, 71 Bragg, William Lawrence 42 Brahmagupta 124 Bunsen, Robert 56 Burnell, Jocelyn Bell 125

Carson, Rachel 121 Carver, George Washington 124 Chadwick, James 89, 96 Chandrasekhar,

Subrahmanyan 97 Charles, Jacques 53 chemists 25, 41, 50–73, 88, 118, 124 Chien-Shiung Wu 93 Clarke, Edith 59 computing 19, 23, 45, 108–109, 116–117 Copernicus, Nicolaus 77, 84 Cox, Brian 125 Crick, Francis 42–43 Curie, Marie, Pierre, and

Irène 66–67

D

Dalton, John 88 Darwin, Charles 34–35 Davenport, Thomas 113 da Vinci, Leonardo 76 Dawkins, Richard 35 Democritus 11 De Sitter, Willem 94 Diesel, Rudolf 107 Diophantus 13 DNA 36, 37, 38, 42–43, 61, 73, 125 Döbereiner, Johann

Wolfgang 124 du Châtelet, Émilie 85

E

Easley, Annie 109 Edison, Thomas Alva 58 Ehrlich, Paul 49 Einstein, Albert 85, 86, 87, 90–91, 102 electricity 24, 56–59, 67, 86, 112–113 Elion, Gertrude B 41 Empedocles 10

F

Faraday, Michael 58–59 Feng Zhang 37 Fermi, Enrico 92 Feynman, Richard 97 Fibonacci 19, 22–23 Fleming, Alexander 40–41 Ford, W Kent 101 Franklin, Benjamin 24, 55 Franklin, Rosalind 42–43

G

Galen, Claudius 17 Galileo Galilei 78–79 Gassner, Carl 57 Gay-Lussac, Joseph 25 Geber 52 Geiger, Hans Wilhem 66 genetics 35, 36–39, 49 Gianotti, Fabiola 125 Goodyear, Charles 64 Gray, George William 65 Gutenberg, Beno 45

H

Haeckel, Ernst 72 Hahn, Otto 92 Halsted, William Stewart 115 Halley, Edmond 82 Haüy, René-Just 70 Hawking, Stephen 97, 102–103 Heisenberg, Werner 96 Hertz, Heinrich 59 Higgs, Peter 97 Hildegard of Bingen 28 Hippocrates 14–15 Hippocrates of Chios 12 Hodgkin, Dorothy

Crowfoot 70–71 Hollerith, Herman 116 Hooke, Robert 32, 53 Hopper, Grace Murray 108 Hubble, Edwin 98–99 Hubert, Conrad 57 Hunter, John 114 Huygens, Christiaan 81 Hypatia 11

I, J

Inventors 13, 14, 15, 16, 31, 46, 56–57, 58–59, 64–65, 71, 79, 87, 104–123, 124 Jackson, Shirley Ann 125 Javan, Ali 120 Jemison, Mae C 125 Jenner, Edward 40, 48, 61 Jobs, Steve 117 Johannsen, Wilhelm 36 Johnson, Katharine 125 Julian, Percy 65

K

Keeling, Charles David 47 Kepler, Johannes 80, 84 Kilby, Jack 117 Kwolek, Stephanie 65

L

Laënnec, René 14 Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste 34 Lavoisier, Antoine 53, 62 Leavitt, Henrietta Swan 83, 99 Lederberg, Joshua 49 Lehmann, Inge 44–45 Leibniz, Gottfried 23 Lemaître, Georges 94 light 9, 24, 30–31, 58, 81, 84–85, 91, 111, 120 Linnaeus, Carl 9, 33 Lister, Joseph 40, 114–115 Lovelace, Ada 108 Lovelock, James 46

M

MacLeod, Colin 37 magnetism 58, 59, 66, 86, 87, 112, 124 Mandelbrot, Benoit 23 Marcet, Jane 124 Marconi, Gugliemo 87 Masatoshi Shima 125 mathematicians 10, 12, 13, 18–19, 22–23, 85, 108, 109, 116, 124, 125 Maxwell, James Clerk 58, 86–87 McCarty, Maclyn 37 medicine 14–15, 17, 20, 21, 28, 31, 40–41, 48–49, 60–61, 65, 68–69, 70–71, 110, 114–115, 125 Meitner, Lise 92 Mendel, Gregor 36–37 Mendeleev, Dmitri 62–63 Michelson, Albert A 90 Miescher, Friedrich 36 Milne, John 44 Mirzakhani, Maryam 125 Mitchell, Maria 124 Morgan, Thomas Hunt 39 Moseley, Henry 63

N

National Medal of Science 73, 125 Newlands, John 62 Newton, Isaac 24, 79, 80, 82, 84–85 Nightingale, Florence 115 Nobel, Alfred 118–119 Nobel Prize 119

Chemistry 63, 67, 88, 124, 125

Medicine 39, 41, 43, 49

Physics 66, 71, 91, 95, 96, 97, 110, 111 Noyce, Robert 117 nuclear physics 67, 88–89, 91, 92–93 Nye, Bill 123

O

Oersted, Hans Christian 86 Oldham, Richard Dixon 44 Oort, Jan Hendrik 100 Oppenheimer, J Robert 92

P, Q

Paracelsus 52 Pasteur, Louis 60–61, 114 Pauling, Linus 124 Penzias, Arno 94–95 philosophers 8, 19, 21, 25 physicists 56, 63, 66, 70, 71, 74–103, 110, 111, 112, 120, 124, 125 Planck, Max 90 Planté, Gaston 56 Priestley, Joseph 25, 55 Pythagoras 10

R

Raman, C V 111 Richter, Charles 45 Röntgen, Wilhelm 70, 110 Royal Society 25, 53, 57, 71, 103, 115 Rubin, Vera 100–101 Rutherford, Ernest 88–89

S

Sagan, Carl 122 Salk, Jonas 48 Sanger, Frederick 125 Schatz, Albert 41 Scott, Dave 79 Seaborg, Glenn T 63 Semmelweis, Ignaz 114 Slipher, Vesto Melvin 98 Snell, Willebrord 31 Sobel, Dava 123 Socrates 8 Somerville, Mary 124 Stevens, Nettie 38 Sturgeon, William 86

T, U

Teller, Edward 93 Tesla, Nikola 112–113 Thales of Miletus 8 Theodorus of Cyrene 12 Thompson, J J 88 Turing, Alan 116–117 Tyson, Neil deGrasse 123

V

van Leeuwenhoek, Antonie 31 Venter, Craig 125 Vesalius, Andreas 14 Volta, Alessandro 56–57 von Bergmann, Ernst 60 von Jacobi, Moritz 113 von Laue, Max 71 von Neumann, John 109

W, X, Y

Waksman, Selman 41 Wallace, Alfred

Russel 34 Watson, James 42–43 Watt, James 106 Weismann, August 35 Wilson, Robert Woodrow 94–95 Wozniak, Steve 117 Wright, Thomas 98

Z

Zhang Heng 16 Zwicky, Fritz 100